Her eyes flew to Clara sitting quietly adjacent to hers with a book on hand. The woman may have not told her but she definitely knew, she had witnessed it with her own eyes that there had been something going on with her and her brother.
But she does not want to confront her for it.
The least she wants is for Clara to get uncomfortable with her. She wants her obliging and easy to control and ordered with.
"I am liking this book I am reading right now," she stated to start a conversation. "It's about a woman who indulges the pleasures of the world."
Clara raised her eyes to hers. "Wild, she is."
She smiled at the woman's remark. "Indeed, but she is also brave for not following what the society dictates her. With all the rules and proprieties, it tends to get suffocating, don't you thi
